And what's more, the simple process of doing that is so compelling that it's hard not to love it. And yet, despite wearing the trappings of those games, it never actually tries to reach into your wallet, making it clear that those mechanics are all present because the folks behind the game want you to take it slow and play this game a little bit at a time, slowly building up your farming empire bit by bit. It has all of the hallmarks of predatory microtransaction-laden games I utterly despise. On the surface, it looks like generic casual trash. I'm honestly surprised at how much I enjoy Farm Together. Characters are cartoony, but everything about the environments has nice little details like nice reflections, different environmental effects during different seasons/time of day, and nice little animations when you harvest each different plant.
I can't really say much about this mode beyond that it's there. This is nice to have, but to be honest, I never found myself tempted to play with strangers, and I don't exactly know anyone else who has the game, so. The game also supports online multiplayer with up to 8 people at a time, wither via specific invite or random strangers, with the ability to place restrictions to keep others from messing up your farm. it'll be a while before you get to everything there is in this game. and not only that, but you'll need to gradually work to unlock everything, some types of plants can only be planted in certain seasons. There are tons of plants, trees, farm animals, flower types, building elements. There's also a fair amount of options here. And everything prompts a sort of relaxing repetitive gameplay that's. There are multiple kinds of currencies earned via different means (which again, surprisingly, the game doesn't peddle to you as microtransactions). You can water plants at regular intervals to reduce the wait time for them to develop. The game has other mechanics reminiscent of casual clicker games like Farmville. But it adds a bright little note to your day, popping in for a few minutes to check in on your little farm. So you'll find yourself farming, and either you'll run out of money, or otherwise want to wait until your crops are ready, and so you'll just leave the game and maybe play Mario or Zelda for a while, only to come back to it later and play a little more, much in the same way you'd play a game like Animal Crossing only for brief snippets of time. The only paid DLC here is costume packs that cost a few bucks each. It's almost like they wanted to make this a nasty microtransaction game and somehow forgot the "nasty" part.
This time mechanic proves to be important because the game also uses a wait mechanic, much as you see in games filled with exploitative microtransactions. You put the game down in the morning, come back in the evening, and you'll find yourself in a different season, but there's not any easy predictability to it. The game makes use of a time mechanic where time passes when you're not playing the game, but it doesn't pass in real-time in the way that the Animal Crossing games do. It really shouldn't be something I enjoy as much as I do. And there is something strangely compelling about this game overall. There's something strangely compelling about gradually seeing your farm expand. There's something strangely compelling about getting closer to completing a specific growing goal. There is something strangely compelling about filling a field with your plant of choice, watering it, and collecting it when it's ready. Players: 1-4 Co-Op (Local Splitscreen), 2-8 Co-Op (Online)įarm Together is a Farm Management Sim, where you are preparing, planting on, building on, and gradually growing the size of a plot of land for your increasingly evolving farm.
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